The Journal

Issue date: 4/26/07 Section: LifeStyle

Media Credit: Lanz Christian Banes Junior Meg Phillips as Lisa expresses her lust for senior Brady Koch's Captain Amazing in "Hilton Hollows Home for the Mentally Unnormal," the final play for Surfacing: An Emerging Playwrights Festival. Students wrote, directed, produced and acted in all seven of Surfacing's plays. The festival ran April 20 through 22. "Hilton Hollows," written by senior Steve Clemmons, was the final play of the evening and consisted of characters from the previous six Surfacing plays.

Once there was a man named John, who was secretly Captain Amazing. When Captain Amazing started therapy, he never imagined he and his arch nemesis Mr. Crab would share the same therapist. Who knew Captain Amazing had so many emotional problems?
These issues and more were explored in Surfacing: The Emerging Playwrights Festival.


Surfacing ran April 20 through 22 in the Studio Theatre of the Loretto-Hilton Center. The festival was a collection of seven one-act plays written, directed and produced by Webster students.


After a short introduction by artistic director James Hansen, a senior film studies major, the show began with "Even The Brawny Man Has His Problems," written by senior Molly McNew, an English and creative writing major. The two main characters, Mr. and Mrs. Brawny, sat as part of the audience. Between each of the seven plays, the spotlight would return to them and their dialogue. The play was a farce of the manly Brawny image seen on paper towels. Ironically, Brawny was portrayed as an overly sensitive man with an addiction to gambling and a criminal record for growing marijuana.


The audience also was able to enjoy the story of Captain Amazing in "Super Ego" by Randy Lutz, a sophomore media communications major, and the story of a murderous family in "The Five Payments" by Chris Richards.

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